December 17, 2017

Why Are Avocados So Expensive? You're Buying These Guys' Ammo

M. has been fuming at the grocery store. Avocados, $2 apiece. It seems like a lot — and I know that many are just thrown away or, sometimes, end up in the donations for the bears at the wildlife rehab center. (We watch the cartons unloaded with undisguised envy, but those furry guys need the calories!)

There is drought. And there is organized crime. (I am surprised no one is talking about "blood avocados.")

The autodefensas have
been returning houses and farms to the original owners or their
families, because in many cases they were murdered after signing a deed
at gunpoint, leaving the farms to the criminal bands' leaders, who
assaulted the properties bringing a public lawyer, who many times also
by gunpoint validated such operations.